Interesting Links for 04-09-2016
- 12 MORE ways to make it look like Brexit has happened
- @jonworth's tongue firmly in cheek.
(tags: eu ukpolitics brexit )
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Francis was obviously got up in his best clothes. A mistake: that age is more relaxed when a little scruffy and grubby. At the school he had been animated because he was showing off; here he was nervous, unsure of himself now that the performance was no longer a game.I confess that I knew nothing of this book or of the writer, and had no expectations whatsoever; and I also confess that I really liked it. It's set in a dystopian Australia of the near future (though the story is told with a framing narrative of researchers from the not-quite-so-near future looking back and trying to work out what was going on, a device I usually love). Society is divided between the well-off Sweet and the proletarian Swill, and the central characters are a family who slip from the former to the latter, with a specific plot strand around the exposure of a massive plot by the government against their own people - though really I feel that as much as anything the setting is the story.